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Chinese Government provides RMB 75.6 million grant for Bambao-Mtsanga Hospital Construction Project

¥75.63M RMB

Funder	China Ministry of Commerce
Recipient Organization	Government of Comoros
Country	Comoros
Start Date	Jan 01, 2009
End Date	Nov 03, 2031
Duration	8,341 days
Number of Grantees	1
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	AidData Chinese Aid
Grant ID	`21627`

Grant Description

On November 27, 2009, the Government of Comoros and the Chinese Urban Construction Research Institute signed a design contract for the Bambao-Mtsanga Hospital Construction Project.

Then, on April 1, 2010, the Chinese Government and the Government of Comoros signed an exchange of letters related to a grant for the Bambao-Mtsanga Hospital Construction Project. China’s Ministry of Commerce was the source of funding and it reportedly committed RMB 75,630,000 in total.

The project involved the construction of a 120-bed hospital — with pediatric, gynecology, surgery, outpatient, and emergency units — in the town of Bambao on the island of Anjouan (approximately 20 km from the Anjouan capital of Mutsamudu). The hospital also has a mortuary, a waste incinerator, and a radiology and digital imaging department.

China Jiangsu International Economic and Technical Cooperation Group, Ltd was the contractor responsible for implementation. On February 5, 2011, the Government of Comoros agreed on a physical site for the hospital. Then, on December 16, 2011, a construction contract was signed. A groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 28, 2012 and the project was completed in July 2014.

However, the hospital did not officially open until May 25, 2017. As of March 2019, the hospital was seriously underutilized due to staff and equipment shortages. Also, the poor quality of the road between Mutsamudu and Bambao made it difficult for patients to get to the hospital.

According to France24, the hospital “looks .. like a ghost ship, with a handful of patients wandering its corridors in stifling heat.”

📋 Staff Comments

This project is also known as the Sino-Comorian Friendship Hospital Construction Project. The French project title is Hôpital Bambao-Mtsanga or Hôpital de l’amitié sino-comorienne. The Chinese project title is 我援科摩罗医院项目 or 我援科摩罗医院项目 or 昂岛医院 or 对援科昂岛医院项目. The original value of the contract that MOFCOM issued to China Jiangsu International Economic and Technical Cooperation Group, Ltd was RMB 56.52 million. However, according to the Chinese Ambassador to Comoros, the Chinese Government committed RMB 75,630,000 in total for this project. AidData relies on the latter value to estimate the size of the grant commitment that supported this project.

📚 Sources & References

http://global.factiva.com/redir/default.aspx?P=sa&an=IOLET00020110309e72500007&cat=a&ep=ASE, http://www.beit-salam.km/article.php3?id_article=1121&var_recherche=chine, http://www.beit-salam.km/article.php3?id_article=2074&var_recherche=chine, http://www.panapress.com/China-grants-Comoros-4.6-million-euro-for-hospital--13-751124-17-lang2-index.html
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